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Last December the European Union granted financing of €30M to support phase five of the Programme for Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa (ECOFAC).
The financing agreement, signed on 17 December in Libreville (Gabon), links the EU and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECOCAS). The budget, allocated by the 10th European Development Fund (EDF), is part of the renewal...
Over a period of twenty years, Jean Ping held various ministerial posts in his own country, Gabon, before being elected Chairperson of the AU Commission in 1980. He was latterly Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and French-speaking countries. Widely revered for his outstanding diplomacy, Ping strengthened the image of both Gabon and of its President, Omar Bongo. Acting as Bongo...
EU grounds African airlines
An EU ban on over 100 African airlines from its airspace is benefitting EU companies, says the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The latest update of the EU’s regularly revised ‘blacklist’ of international air companies that do not comply with EU regulations was published on 30 March 2010. Eleven – out...
With her slender 6ft 2in frame, beauty, elegance and intelligence, the Greco-Gabonese model Gloria Mika, icon of the couturiers and designers of luxury beauty products and muse of famous musicians, has just seen her fame take a quantum leap. Her appeal to the goodwill of her fellow models in setting up ‘Guardian Angels for Transparency’ to oversee the Gabonese elections last August, and in other...
Mechanisms put in place in Africa concerning gender equality are in urgent need of overhaul, according to Fatou Sarr. Sociologist and director of the gender laboratory and of scientific research at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, as well as an international consultant, she suggests potential remedies, all of which depend on support being lent to various social movements.
It was...
The lost, forgotten – even exhumed riches from Africa
It is common knowledge that Africa is the cradle of humanity and of disciplines such as mathematics – that is, unless new discoveries come along to trump these widely-held assumptions. Reducing the continent to the role of ‘originator’, and in so doing conferring on the other continents – Europe, in particular...
Rising commodity prices, the upping of lending pledges and the appearance of green shoots in the economies of the United States and Europe are combining to bring brighter economic prospects for the African continent.
"We have seen substantial firming of commodity prices compared to the decline that was experienced for the last quarter of last year”, says Alex Sienaert, an...
Gabon: The son of late president succeeds his father
Ali Bongo, 50-years old, candidate of the Parti Démocratique Gabonais (PDG), son of President Omar Bongo Ondimba who died in June 2009 after 41 years in power, was elected President of Gabon with 41.76 per cent votes on 30 August at the end of a single poll. Rivals André Mba Obamé, who came second with 25.88 per cent...
The 53rd Venice biennale (from 7 June to 22 November) has many novelties, amongst these a first pavilion from Palestine, the first pavilion dedicated to Internet and a total of 77 national pavilions – the largest number in its history.
It’s clear: Africa’s participation isn’t a new event and, as we have already said, there is no longer the need to fight the invisibility of African art in the...
Picasso and the African Masters
‘Picasso and the Masters’ is a new exhibition being hosted by three Parisian galleries – The Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, the Louvre, and the Musée d'Orsay* – in conjunction with the National Gallery of London. The exhibition pays tribute to the Catalan genius as well as the European artists who inspired and influenced...
Last December the European Union granted financing of €30M to support phase five of the Programme for Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa (ECOFAC).
The financing agreement, signed on 17 December in Libreville (Gabon), links the EU and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECOCAS). The budget, allocated by the 10th European Development Fund (EDF), is part of the renewal...
Over a period of twenty years, Jean Ping held various ministerial posts in his own country, Gabon, before being elected Chairperson of the AU Commission in 1980. He was latterly Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and French-speaking countries. Widely revered for his outstanding diplomacy, Ping strengthened the image of both Gabon and of its President, Omar Bongo. Acting as Bongo...
EU grounds African airlines
An EU ban on over 100 African airlines from its airspace is benefitting EU companies, says the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The latest update of the EU’s regularly revised ‘blacklist’ of international air companies that do not comply with EU regulations was published on 30 March 2010. Eleven – out...
With her slender 6ft 2in frame, beauty, elegance and intelligence, the Greco-Gabonese model Gloria Mika, icon of the couturiers and designers of luxury beauty products and muse of famous musicians, has just seen her fame take a quantum leap. Her appeal to the goodwill of her fellow models in setting up ‘Guardian Angels for Transparency’ to oversee the Gabonese elections last August, and in other...
Mechanisms put in place in Africa concerning gender equality are in urgent need of overhaul, according to Fatou Sarr. Sociologist and director of the gender laboratory and of scientific research at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, as well as an international consultant, she suggests potential remedies, all of which depend on support being lent to various social movements.
It was...
The lost, forgotten – even exhumed riches from Africa
It is common knowledge that Africa is the cradle of humanity and of disciplines such as mathematics – that is, unless new discoveries come along to trump these widely-held assumptions. Reducing the continent to the role of ‘originator’, and in so doing conferring on the other continents – Europe, in particular...
Rising commodity prices, the upping of lending pledges and the appearance of green shoots in the economies of the United States and Europe are combining to bring brighter economic prospects for the African continent.
"We have seen substantial firming of commodity prices compared to the decline that was experienced for the last quarter of last year”, says Alex Sienaert, an...
Gabon: The son of late president succeeds his father
Ali Bongo, 50-years old, candidate of the Parti Démocratique Gabonais (PDG), son of President Omar Bongo Ondimba who died in June 2009 after 41 years in power, was elected President of Gabon with 41.76 per cent votes on 30 August at the end of a single poll. Rivals André Mba Obamé, who came second with 25.88 per cent...
The 53rd Venice biennale (from 7 June to 22 November) has many novelties, amongst these a first pavilion from Palestine, the first pavilion dedicated to Internet and a total of 77 national pavilions – the largest number in its history.
It’s clear: Africa’s participation isn’t a new event and, as we have already said, there is no longer the need to fight the invisibility of African art in the...
Picasso and the African Masters
‘Picasso and the Masters’ is a new exhibition being hosted by three Parisian galleries – The Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, the Louvre, and the Musée d'Orsay* – in conjunction with the National Gallery of London. The exhibition pays tribute to the Catalan genius as well as the European artists who inspired and influenced...
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